The shattered ruins of skyscrapers, which had stood for hundreds of years, began to crumble and collapse the moment they were touched by the spreading silver tide. Like ice under a flame, they melted away silently, transforming into a new silver tide that surged outward.
With the Red Fortress Base at its center, the silver tide spread rapidly outward, like an avalanche or a tsunami.
Although this strange spectacle on the seabed was taking place in utter, sunless darkness, the silver tide carried a faint fluorescence, illuminating the ruins of the undersea city that had remained unchanged for hundreds of years.
Old, rusted cars, shops buried in sand, skeletons slumbering in corners, plastics that hadn't degraded in centuries, museums, office buildings, pedestrian streets—everything, absolutely everything in the city, transformed into the silver tide and surged outward.
